Chapter 4: First mission pt 2

"Awww~ I'm so bored~" Yang whined laying against the podium the three Beacon wizards were asked to protect

"Well their was no guarantee Roman would come" Blake said not even looking up from her book. In truth that was the hole reason she choosed this mission, if everything went well no one would show up, she'd finish her new book, have the money needed for her tuition and start her classes without worrying about it

Jaune, who was leaning against the wall stood up straight "I'm gonna go get a drink, anyone want anything"

"Lemonade" Yang said

"Some tea would be nice" Blake said

Jaune nodded and walked to the doors "I'll be back in a minute"


"Oh this going to be so much fun" Roman said twirling his cane in his hand

Neo stepped forwards, her parasol over her right shoulder as she raised her left hand and created a magic circle, it had a pal pink outer ring, a white inner ring and a brown centre

In front of Neo a circler opening appeared in mid-air witch seemed to lead to some kind of pathway made of mirrors, but a strange thing was the pathway could not be seen from the outside

As the two walked into the pathway Roman marvelled at what his partner created "your Mirror Magic really is something, not only did you make a path to the museum but also bent the light so no one can see it from outside"

Neo smiled wider at the compliment, her eyes changing colour to pale pink and brown

When the two made it out the other end they stepped onto the rooftop of the museum and quickly made their way to one of the glass windows, Neo grabbed the end of her parasol and pulled out a short sword, raising her blade Neo stabbed the window several times creating small, thin cuts in the glass without cracking it

"If this place has learned anything they most likely hired some wizards to guard the Oceans Tear" Roman said absently, then smirked at his multi-coloured partner "how about you play with the guards while I grab the necklace"

Neo smiled brightly, a murderous glint shining in her eyes. With a wave of her hand she create a large standing mirror on the roof, big enough for a group of people to see themselves in

"Great, let's get going" Roman said placing his hand on Neo's shoulder as an orange magic circle appeared underneath the two

"Smoke Body"

With that the two criminals turned into white smoke witch moved to the window and seeped through the cuts into the building, once inside the smoke quickly entered the vent closest to it


"Did you hear that" Blake asked

"Hear what" Yang said now laying down on the floor

Blake walked up to the door and opened it, looking down both sides of the hallway to see anything out of the ordinary. Yang who was still laying on the floor turned on her side away from Blake, waving her hand lazily in the air

"It was probably just one of the guards or Jaune" Yang said yawning

"Maybe"

As Blake closed the door neither of the two noticed the cloud of smoke that came from the vent near the roof, witch started to circle around the room

Before Blake could get back to her book a chuckle echoed through out the room, in seconds both Beacon wizards were on their feet and ready for battle

"Who's there" Blake shouted, looking around for the source of the chuckling

The sound of the man's laugher only grew louder as if mocking them but eventually a man fell from the roof and in front of the two girls, one who the two have seen before

""Roman Torchwick""

"Ah, so you know of me. Glad to know I'm famous even outside of the criminal underworld" Roman said twirling his cane "but I'm afraid there's no time for autographs, I have a necklace to acquire"

"Ha, like we'd let that happen" Yang smirked raising her fists in a boxing stance

Roman smirked back "well we can't have that, Neo if you would"

"Who's Neo" Yang asked but then both Blake and Yang felt someone grab their shoulder's

Turning around the two saw a short girls with multi-coloured hair, Neo smiled as a large mirror appeared behind her and with one strong pull the three went through the mirror witch distorted like water and then shattered


Back on the roof of the museum the mirror Neo created there rippled as a black and yellow figure were thrown out of it, impacting the ground Blake and Yang rolled into their fall and got back up to their feet

"What the hell was that" Yang asked

"It must be her magic" Blake said

The two watched as Neo walked out of the mirror, twirling her parasol over her shoulder as she looked at the Beacon wizards, the bloodlust in her eyes only growing stronger when the mirror behind her shattered into four circler pieces that started to float around her

"Still bored" Blake asked, shadows swirling around her hands

Yang grinned at the shadow user "nope" she said popping the 'p'

A yellow magic circle appeared in front of Yang witch she destroyed by slamming her fists together. Yellow magical energy covered her arms up to her elbows almost like gloves, yellow flames burned out of her elbows and a red line went across her arm to her knuckles witch covered them in a T-like shape, multiple small horizontally red rectangles were placed around her wrists like bracelets

"Burst Magic: Ember Celica"

'Burst magic' Blake thought

Yang smirked at Neo who still stood their idly "alright let's do this, Burst Bullet"

With that Yang threw a left punch witch shot out a ball of red Burst Magic from her fist, Neo held her parasol in front of her and blocked the attack

Yang dashed forwards and engaged the multi-coloured girl in close-combat, but Neo seemed to move just out of the way before Yang could connect a hit, Neo stuck the blonde with her parasol as Blake came up behind her

"Shadow Claw"

A purple magic circle appeared and out of it came several shadow arms with three bladed claws at the end of each, the claws shot at Neo who dodged out of the way with acrobatic movements and flips

Neo took a quick look behind her and saw Yang coming in for another attack, smirking the mirror wizard grabbed Yang's shoulder and used it to jump in the air and land on the blondes head. Kicking off Neo not only slammed Yang's head into the foor but also jumped into one of her mirrors just like before

The mirror behind Blake rippled as Neo flew out of it and delivered a flying kick to the middle of her back witch sent crashing into Yang

The Burst magic user quickly got up again and fired a Burst Bullet at Neo, in return Neo simply moved one of her mirrors in front of her coursing the attack to be redirected at the Beacon wizards, blasting them with their own attack

Neo smirked, she was really enjoying this job right now


At the same time...

Roman watched as Neo dragged the two wizards through her mirror portal, turning to the glass case the thief held his hand out, ready to claim his prize...

If it wasn't for a white beam of light shooting through the door and almost taking his hand off, Roman was able to move his hand away in time and looked to the source of the attack, only to see the door kicked off it's hinges and fly towards him

When the door made contact Roman's body turned into smoke and reformed, the door crashing into the wall behind him

"Well, looks like we missed one" Roman said staring at Jaune in the door way, Roman lifted his cane and pointed it at the Dragon slayer, a red magic circle engraved on the tip glowing brightly

From the tip of the cane shot a ball of red magical energy, Jaune quickly rolled out of the way before the ball impacted the ground and exploded, destroying part of the other door and the floor

Jaune dashed towards the thief with light magic swirling around his right hand

"Light Dragon Claw"

The light formed like a claw around Jaune's hand witch he swung at Roman, but as soon as the claw made contact with Roman he dissipated into smoke, the smoke moved behind Jaune and reformed into the orange haired thief

"Afraid that won't work, Smoke Knuckle" from Roman's hand formed several fists made of smoke that punched Jaune and slammed him against the wall, Jaune grit his teeth as the air was knocked out of his lungs, but thinking quickly Jaune jumped off the wall he was knocked into and breathed in deeply

"Light Dragon Roar"

A beam of white light shot out of Jaune's mouth but just like before as the beam hit Roman in the chest he turned to smoke, the attack going right through him

Jaune landed as the smoke seemed to circle around him, looking left and right the Dragon Slayer almost growled in frustration 'damn it, every time I try to hit him he turns to smoke'

Suddenly Jaune's instincts told him to dodge something behind him, following his gut Jaune ducked down as something past over his head, looking over his shoulder he saw Roman's cane dissipating into the smoke once again

And just like that punches, kicks and swings from his cane all came at Jaune from different directions, Jaune tried to dodge the best he could but he couldn't stop a few hits from landing

'I can't fight back like this. Now I'm starting to worry about Blake and Yang, I smelt them on the roof with someone else, probably Roman's partner'

"Hope their doing better then me" Jaune muttered


"I hate this" Yang said angrily

The two Beacon wizards are sitting behind a large chimney as a hail storm of small shard of mirror flew past them, peeking out around the chimney Blake could make out a large magic circle witch was generating the shards, behind it was Neo a sadistic smirk playing at her lips

Blake quickly moved back as more shards flew past were her head was "how can she keep that spell going"

"Don't know but it's really annoying me" Yang growled out her eyes shining red... wait

"Yang, weren't your eyes a purple colour?" Blake asked looking at the blondes eyes, from what she could remember Yang's eyes are lilac not red. And now that she thinks about it the air is kind of hotter near her to

Yang raised an eyebrow at the sudden question but answered anyway "it's a passive ability of my Burst magic, the more powerful an attack I'm hit with the stronger I can hit back, IF ONLY I COULD LAND ONE!"

Ignoring Yang's shout of frustration Blake tried to think of a way to win but just like Yang none of her attacks landed on the multi-coloured girl 'if we could keep her in one place... wait... that might work'

"Yang, I have an idea" Blake said placing a hand on the ground coursing her own shadow to grow in size "on my call, hit her with everything to have"

Hearing the plan involved punching that little thief as hard as she could made Yang grin evilly "with, pleasure"

Blake nodded, closed her eyes and took a deep breath

"Shadow" Blake muttered and a copy of herself came from her shadow, the shadow dashed out of cover and dodged the hail of shards

When Neo saw -what she thought was- one of the wizards running away from her attack, her smirk widened slightly. Moving her hand Neo directed her attack to focus on the black haired girl but a look of shock crossed her face, because instead of hearing a scream of pain as she thought she would, the body of the girl faded into shadows

'NOW!' Blake shouted in her head

Moving out of cover Blake placed both hands on the floor and her shadow stretched to the thief's partner, when it was under the multi-coloured girl solid shadow came out from the floor and wrapped around her, binding her to the floor

"Go!" Blake shouted to the blonde

Yang grinned and ran from the other side of the chimney, her left arm glowing with yellow energy and heat. In only a matter of seconds Yang was in front of the thief, her arm pulled back to strike

"Burst Impacted" Yang yelled as her fist connected with the centre of Neo's chest, the force behind the blow broke the shadow binding and sent Neo flying back to the edge of the roof

Neo lost her breath as she hit the floor roughly, sending jolts of pain throughout her back and coursing her to hold her chest were the punch landed

"AAHHHH!"

Looking above her Neo saw the blonde falling down towards her with her right fist cocked back, Yang landed another blow with a smirk but it was quickly wiped off her face as the Neo below her shattered like glass

"What the?" Yang said confused, her eyes fading back to their normal lilac

"Were'd she go?" Blake asked

The sound of a blade scrapping across the ground court both of the Beacon wizards attention, looking over to the source they saw Neo standing their with a silver blade coming out of the top of her parasol

When they saw her face, her smirk was now replaced by an angry scowl

"I don't think she likes that we hit her" Yang said getting into a boxing stance

Blake didn't say anything back to Yang's statement as she got into her own stance and readied herself, for some reason Blake felt their opponent was just playing around untill now

'I feel like this fight gonna be lot harder now' Blake thought

*BOOM!*


Earlier...

Jaune was still standing in the middle of Roman's smoke field, dodging the best he could from the thief's strikes

It was only till one hit made him look up that a plan formed in his head 'it's a chance, but it might work. I just need to distract him'

With that Jaune closed his eyes and focused, his body was enveloped in a white aura and with a clap of his hands a bright flash of light covered everything in the room

"Ah" Roman shouted as his body reformed and he held his eyes in pain

Only a few seconds later did Roman hear an alarm sound and what felt like water hitting his body

Looking up the thief saw the museums sprinkler system was set off and with a quick scan around the room Roman found Jaune by the switch that turned it on

"And what pray tell, was that supposed to do?"

Jaune smirked "you'll see"

With that Jaune charged forwards, his left fist glowing with white light

'Ha, what good will that do' Roman thought arrogantly 'all I have to do is use Smoke Body again and we'll be back to-' "GYA!"

Roman's thought were cut off as Jaune's fist connected with the thief's gut, sending him flying back into the wall behind the podium. As Roman stood up -leaning against the wall for support- he sent a glared at the Beacon wizard in front of him

"H-how?" Roman questioned

"Every magic has it's weakness" Jaune said glaring back at the thief "smoke magic has the same weakness as sand magic, water" 'I really got to thank Goodwitch for those magic classes'

Roman's eyes widened as Jaune generated a large amount of magical energy, taking in a deep breath witch coursed the energy around Jaune to flow into his mouth

"Light Dragon Holy Breath"

With that Jaune released a giant beam of light from his mouth, even larger then Light Dragon Roar

"Oh for fuc-" Roman was cut off as the beam struck died centre, sending Roman through the wall as a resounding 'BOOM!' echoed in the building

Jaune stood their, panting slightly from the amount of magical energy he had to use for that spell 'damn that was taxing. Hopefully that broke his aura'


Back to present...

Blake and Yang, as well as Neo were all drawn to the sound of an explosion

A beam of white light shot out of the side of the museum witch coursed the three to cover their eyes, as the light faded Neo was able to spot Roman falling to the ground. Quickly moving one of her mirrors under Roman and another next to her, the thief was teleported from one to the other and landed next to Neo

"Well that was unpleasant" Roman said kneeling on the floor, a little burned from the intense light

Jaune grabbed the edge of the roof and pulled himself up

"Are you alright?" Blake asked noticing Jaune's heavy breathing

"Fine, just tired" it was true, with the hits he took from Roman's smoke body and the energy used in that last spell, he was the most exhausted of the three

In the distance, the sound of footsteps court everyone's attention, looking over they saw a group of over 10 people all wearing the same blue long coats with golden edges, a golden symbol on the back of them witch seemed to be a combination of all the four kingdoms symbols (the Vytal festival symbol)

"The Magic council" Roman said

Yang placed her hands on her hips and grinned at the two thief's "looks like your smoked, eh, get it"

Blake rolled her eyes at her blonde roommate, living with her for only a day Blake knows Yang likes making puns, no matter how bad they are

Roman stared at the knights "tch... Neo, we're out of here"

With a nod Neo created a large mirror behind the two, Roman and Neo stepped through the mirror doorway to what ever escape root they had planned

"No you don't" Yang said charging forwards, she tried to hit them before they got away but the mirror shattered "damn it, they got away"

Blake placed her hand on Yang's shoulder "we may not of court the criminals, but we did complete the mission"

"Yeah" Jaune said sitting down on the floor "in fact, I'll call Ren and tell him the mission went well"

Jaune pulled out his scroll and scowled at what he saw. Not only was it cracked -most likely from one of Roman's attacks- but because of the sprinklers water had gotten inside it, making it impossible to fix

Yang, seeing this burst out laughing and fell down to the floor "seriously, another one"

Blake sat down as well tucking her legs under her, instead of falling on her back like Yang and raised an eyebrow at the Dragon slayer "you really do have bad luck with scrolls"

"I have bad luck with a lot of things"

Hearing that made Yang laugh harder, tears forming in her eyes as she held her stomach "when it comes to tech, your not that bright, huh Dragon-boy"

Both Blake and Jaune groaned at the Burst wizards pun, but Blake couldn't help but smile slightly

For her first mission as a member of Beacon, it went pretty well


In the living room of an apartment, a full length mirror rippled like water as Roman and Neo stepped out of it

"Well that was a bust" Roman muttered falling into the sofa

Neo sat besides him, an uncharacteristic worried look in her eyes. Roman, seeing this look placed his hand on her head, ruffling her hair slightly

"Don't look like that Neo, we'll get it next time" Roman said pulling out a cigar from his pocket, after taking a drag and exhaling the smoke Roman's eyes narrowed, his voice becoming firm "I won't stop till I get what's mine"

"Maybe I can help"

At the sound of a new voice Neo quickly stood up and drew the blade from her parasol but Roman raised his hand, signaling her stop

From the doorway of another room a woman walked in, her black heels clicking against the wood floor. As she sat down in the chair across from the thief's, Roman placed his cigar in the ash tray

"Who might you be" Roman asked

"Think of me as a business partner. One with an... interesting proposition"

Roman raised an eyebrow, silently telling her to continue witch coursed said woman to smile "you see, myself and my colleagues are in need of your skills, and we are willing to give something of significant value to you"

"And that would be"

"Why this of course" the woman said pulling a small object from the sleeve of her red dress

Roman's eyes widened at what he saw, his cigar almost falling from his mouth

In the woman's hand she held of small gold ring witch is engraved with a vine like pattern, but the most prominent part is the orange diamond with gold petals around it, making it look like a flower

"Who would of thought something like this to be hidden within the Ocean's Tear" the woman said looking at the ring, it's diamond shining in the rooms light "I don't think anyone in the museum even knows there's a secret compartment behind the jewel"

Not once did Roman's eyes leave the ring, looking at it with both longing... and sadness

"So... this proposition you have" the thief said, not able to hide the slight signs of a genuine smile on his face

The woman smiled herself, and if by a trick of the light her one visible amber eye seemed to glow

All the while Neo stood by Roman's side, keeping a blank exterior but inwardly she was happy for her boss. But there was something about this woman she didn't trust, so she'll make sure to be on guard from now on... and to keep an eye on this woman in red


A/N: and that's the end of Blake's first mission, I hope you all liked it

I had a review a while back wondering if Yang was going to be a Fire Dragon Slayer, sorry to disappoint but no

Yang's magic is actually bast off of her semblance from the show, Burst magic is basically kinetic energy with a side affect of creating heat (and also had Yang's semblance as a passive ability)

Another thing, about Roman's smoke body and the water thing.

I asked a few people and looked it up and the internet but didn't find anything concrete, so I went with it anyway... why, because it was on an episode of Naruto Shippuden (try and guess witch one, here's a hint: it was a filler episode)

Well, until next time, bye!